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Midge, a new animator hired a week after their lead animator, Javier, spontaneously exploded for no reason, arrives at the studio somewhere in New England. A genetic group of mobile fan-protesters from the New England chapter of the Global Internet Fandom Coalition are outside due to the game trailer that the studio made for their game "Surfing With Sharks", an endless runner that actually has an end, which the lead designer, Kevin, calls an "Endful Runner". The shark is a great white shark, but Kevin makes it a tiger shark in the script for the trailer.

Francine, the HR administrator, gets a "wall of interns" surrounding her in her workspace. Midge decided to take them back to the college they were from at the Center of the Institute to the Academy of Higher University of Games (CIAHUG), a for-profit school run by administrator Provost West. Recruiting Ben, a game artist, and Viper, lead character artist, they drive to the university in a van with the interns stacked as a wobbling tower. When they arrived, they have to outrun West's ex-military grade recruiting robot agent, Recuitus Maximus, as well. Ben and Viper managed to escape with the intern while the rest try to put the interns in classrooms on campus. However, Midge finds a secret room behind a painting from opening a head bust of West, leading her, Kevin and Pylon, the technical artist, to an Intern packing plant. Ben and Viper finds a Faculty-Only room of workers chained up and hanging as West locks them up inside. The Intern outside helps them to get the keys to the door.

After playing a new build of the game with the shark now in a shiny next-gen 3D model, Francine is asked by Jeb to make the office look "better" for an upcoming investor meeting in two days. However, she buys too much at a low price at Cheap Random Assets and Provisions. Ben and Joan tried to calm Francine down while Kevin, Pylon and Midge try to look for the hacker who changed the shark in their game by checking the backup system of the change log from the engineers. However, without Interns to fed them, they decide to give them coffee instead. Kevin and Pylon sends Midge to talk with the Lead Engineer while getting them some chai latte. However, Midge finds out that she thinks she's the one who changed the shark.

Pylon wakes up to his face being missing, due to a graphical glitch. He tries to go to the local hospital, but they cannot help him. However, Doctor IK, a mad scientist, can help Pylon with his problem but he and Kevin tried to go to a hospital in Canada by taking the sewers. When they arrived, the doctors kick him out for switching the lowest number to get in. He then goes back to Doctor IK who used a device similar to a pinball machine to cure Pylon's face from Terminal Rigor Borkus.

When Kevin discovers that his computer was stolen, Midge and Pylon decide to go look for it while Kevin starts drinking coffee using Francine's new coffee machine, much to her dismay. Kevin starts teleporting around, causing to have multiple Kevins to help him get the game a 10 out of 10, a game developer formula known as "The Kevin Effect" which only reduce their rating back down to 3 out of 10. Francine managed to destroy the coffee machine and breaks Kevin's addiction to caffeine, causing the team to ban him from drinking anymore coffee-related drinks.

After Kevin is banned from drinking Coffee, he started to get a "hammer" headache while Pylon decides to turn the meeting room into a motion capture studio using Motion Capture Emerald paint and makes a computer to capture Ben's movement for the game. However, the computer used to control it becomes self-aware and instead of taking over the world or enslaving humanity, he mugs the team with knife-wielding drones to get out and head to Philly.